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Posts and comments asking about awards are more often than not thinly veiled attempts at begging for them. Don’t fall into this trap from either side. Like karma, you should make sure you don’t talk *about* awards outside this subreddit. The only other place where it is acceptable is on r/awards. In almost any other subreddit, the very mention of the word can be interpreted as “award farming” which is very much disliked and will be ridiculed[1]. It can also backfire on you, as an “unwritten rule of gilding” on Reddit is *“If someone is asking for gold, gild the comment above or below them, but under no circumstance gild the comment itself.”*
1: https://i.redd.it/dtioktlqnac51.jpg
Award farming can range from asking outright for awards, to acting like you don’t want awards, to acting like you want to stop people that are trying to farm awards, through using an Alt account to “talk” to yourself to try and circumvent the “unwritten rule of gilding”. Reddit loves being meta. Until you’re banned for vote manipulation[2].
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/n89eop/if_i_make_an_alt_just_to_upvote_and_award_a_post/
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